If not for the success that medicine has made I might be part of a much different story right now.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it we need not solve innumerable differential equations but can use dice with fair success.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed not dragged down by a resentment of success.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
It's funny because in drama school my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust but of strength and inspiration.
My father was the son of immigrants and he grew up bilingual but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time but ultimately diversity is a strength.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength whence arises a state of war between different nations.
You have to get along with people but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
The type of cuisine I do especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco Spain Italy Greece France but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.
I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like with much more of a sense from our perspective of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts having strength in alliances operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons airplanes airships gliders and sailboats.
I used to play football at school and I enjoyed really physical sports but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports or plays or school performances so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
When you're a kid growing up and you think you're gay you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
I think it's good for sports cars to be united to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series fans don't know which way to go when you only have one I think it's good for the sport.
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement crime and sexual behavior.
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.